Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Davidson details several amendments in the Senate version of the GOP tax bill that provide unexpected benefits for several industries, like cruise ships.

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... been ... this ... is your money matters ... on the long ... term ... welcomes your money matters ... and they are willingly or ... Republican tax bill passed by the Senate last week is on its way to be reconciled ... with a house for them to the final law ... but there's more to the building just tax cuts and a revised EXCO ... numerous amendments were inserted into the Senate to all the key of an assortment of industries experts ... and Wall Street Journal reporter Kate Davidson joins us ... from Washington bureau to discuss so keep some of the beneficiaries of these amendments like the oil and gas industry ... for not a total surprise but others like the cruise ship industry ... where for some unexpected ... yet that stuff really wanted a thing just to raise some eyebrows answer me when we stopped ... Alyssa late midday on Friday as some of the amendments that were going to be swept up into what's called on managers and and and and a hodgepodge of the very end of ... all these different ideas and changes that various senators ... offered ... Chris trach creation provision certainly was a reprieve that stuck out to ... read I get about one and we tried to answer to some others and try and figure out ... of bed at that time couple dozens and dozens of amendments that were included which runs were the most significant which ones are just really unusual eight accretion wants that was one those offered by Senator Dan Sullivan ... from Alaska where Cree shipped or isn't is very very important and keep the bellows the tax bill ... I included a provision that with ... the firm for comfort care Reese's essentially raise taxes on Krishna clients he and Senator from Alaska so this when the disproportionally in fact Alaskan communities especially ones that rely on cricket or isn't so ... that was the justification for that and that it could hurt the economy there to be up about one in any detail in many these amendments inserted into the bill ... begun to appease senators have been on the fence in terms of committing to vote for the tax plan one of those was for Senator Susan Collins of Maine ... who had been critical ... of the Senate tax proposal ... throughout much of the legislative process ... let's pray datacenter calms me now was one of the ... an in law makers to really use for leverage quite effectively and she she is manage to secure a number of ... commitments and change as one of the ones that that was sent back included in this manager's amendment was a deal to prefer the medical expense deduction ... back to the level that was in place before the fort of the Affordable Care Act's over Obamacare could change the locks that taxpayers can only deduct medical expenses that exceeded ten percent ... of their of their income they use to be ... seven and a half percent so that is people with high medical expenses it was easier for them to take pics because he kept ... a greater share of those expenses ... and a law change that so she managed to revert back to back to ... the at seven a half percent level for two years and this is something that earlier she had sought a change in the treatment just for senior citizens Sony has actually gotten even even better deal but ... this was something that the AARP had been pushing for a particular because ... seniors are very high medical expenses and this is a big change for them when I'm on Obamacare change the law so that was a win for their Korea but also ... an engine for center comes at constituents who and who cared alot about this ... in a lot of these amendments they tend to benefit drawn to industries or ... broad groups of people but something that stood out in your article in The Wall Street Journal ... was an amendment that benefits a single college in Michigan ... Ray Allen was a little tricky and we should note that any and it was the Democrats ... music and then some of their Republican colleagues ... to vote and to strike the provision from the bill but it got a lot of attention Friday night in the final hours on it was offered by Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania ... E and had to do with ... a new excise tax on university ... endowments and so basically Sentier reset let him he offered a provision that said colleges that don't take certain kinds of federal funding ... should have to pay this excise tax ... well land and lawmakers take a closer look they realize hey this provision was actually only help one in particular college Hillsdale College ... in this again ... and Democrats also points out that the school has sometimes too that the Fox family and then education Secretary Betsy the paucity John Oliver that's a sad ... what is the point of this why is there an amended its just getting special treatment on college ... Mr Cheney onto the floor and said this is perfectly reasonable on if you don't take certain kinds of federal funding he should have to pay this tax but ... in the end Democrats offer their own and can encounter a man meant to say we should strike this language from the bell and a cough or Republican colleagues to support and any and any amendment was approved said that languages ultimately struck from the final count ... for speaking with a Wall Street Journal's Kate Davidson and our last-minute amendment inserted into the Senate GOP tax bill ... and one or two that actually you mind of not being in the bill ... in your listening to money matters from the Wall Street Journal ... welcome back everybody ... so Kate in most cases amendments were inserted into the Senate tax bill to provide a benefit ... but in some instances in fact in one instance ... an amendment takes a benefit away can you explain that ... the sell out a Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa ... offered Ana Menendez had been part of the stand alone legislation she actually introduced before ... anyone care rather than the docks and that members of Congress are allowed to take their lead to Didak their living expenses ... from their income taxes while they're living and working in Washington D C ... E and Thomas Eric this is something that that is not ... that greeted the NFL is a nice perk I guess for law makers but clearly there are some members are saying hey this isn't really fair this is us ... are jockeying we're on profits and we agreed to work in a ... move to DC and Easter part of the week a lot of them come home on the weekends but while they're there they are given Wednesday we shouldn't be ... that we should be able to keep ... these living expenses as essentially as business deduction so ... that would eliminate the perk for them ... them for the most part ... these amendments are quite generous and they earned the tax bill some key Senate votes ... are some of them expected to be deleted as lawmakers try to match of the Senate and House versions certainly that could happen I mean it ... rightly should we should definitely note that this isn't sad this is it the law just yet we have a Senate version ... and the changes are talking about were part of that bill that passed him in the very early morning hours on sadder day ... but now rate now House lawmakers they have their own bill that they pass the Guinea get together and something called a conference committee ... and me and cash out ... and passionate green and save ... your servers in your servers in a week and a half to come to some agreement on ... two identical ... or what I get smashed into one one single person on it that people past and then that goes to the present self ... they'll have to figure out what stays and what goes and I think that ... some of the sum of the changes proposed for example from Senator Susan Collins Sonus healthcare ones are fairly tricky and son House lawmakers may or ... may object to those so nothing is final until its final in Cape after that all members of Congress must vote on this final plan but ... getting to that moment they're up against a very tough deadline because president Rob wants this ... on his desk a final plan on his desk by Christmas day after a mean and in that Washington had he can get a lot as we've seen ... me can get alot done in a tight timeframe if they want to you and they have a couple of weeks and where were they can stretch this out so ... I think it probably fell comparable that they have plenty of time the hard but it seems as though the hard part is behind them getting both chambers ... to pass a bill ... is also important remember that a timeline is somewhat self imposed yes the president certainly has made clear he wants that goal in a buy it to his desk by Christmas or by the end of the year but ... nothing terrible is going to happen if that doesn't happen but I think it seems I it seems as other candidate in an act of buying alright will see what happens in the next couple of weeks ... the Wall Street Journal's Lee Davidson joining us from our Washington bureau ... keep things very much for being with us thank you for having me ... thank you for listening to money matters ... and Jr will and in New York for The Wall Street Journal is Alexa part of your life ... then make your money matters parted for flash briefing on the Amazon at them ... the Wall Street Journal ... listen and viciously ...